A Young Negro Fiend - A Cowhiding Match - The Bricklayers Strike
Item
- Title
- A Young Negro Fiend - A Cowhiding Match - The Bricklayers Strike
- Source
- Savannah Morning News (GA)
- Date
- 1882-06-14
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82015137/1882-06-14/ed-1/.
- Crime
- Rape
- Subject
- Rape; 6 year old girl
- Race of alleged offender
- Black alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender (Young Boy)
- Race of alleged victim
- Black alleged victim
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Law enforcement involved
- Police
- Stage of the Legal System
- Arraignment
- Location
- Out of State, Charleston SC
- Length of story
- 136
- Description
-
Charleston, June 13 —N
the fact that every case of rape that has
occurred in South Carolina of recent years
has been followed by the speedy punish
ment of the brutes, two cases having oc
curred within the past two weeks,
the crime seems to be on the Increase.
The latest case occurred In this city to
day, the brute In this instance being a negro
boy twelve years of age, and named Henry
Robinson, and the victim a little negro girl
about six or seven years of age. The brute
was discovered perpetrating his fiendish
crime in a lot in New street about four
o’clock this afternoon by a colored man,
who at once arrested him and turned him
over to the police. The girl was sent home
terribly injured. The beast Is locked up.